Independent verification of data is a fundamental principle of scientific research across the disciplines. The self-correcting mechanisms of the scientific method depend on the ability of researchers ...

As the result of a mandate from Congress, the National Academies will explore the issues of reproducibility and replication in scientific and engineering research. The committee will explore what is ...

Today, as part of continued efforts to foster transparency and reproducibility in life science research, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nonprofit publisher of the ...

With the support of a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Carlos Maltzahn and the UC Santa Cruz Center for ...

Science isn’t facing a reproducibility catastrophe, but the scientific community could take important steps to improve reporting and replicability, according to a new report from the US National ...

"If researchers want to build on knowledge, they should be able to replicate results to fully comprehend the research that has been done before," says Daniel J. Stekhoven, Ph.D., director of NEXUS ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Nature polled bench scientists to find out what they thought about the much-discussed crisis of reproducibility in published scientific reports. What does it take to stop the sale of snake oil? Share ...

Olavo B. Amaral is a neuroscientist working in meta-research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a coordinator of the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative. Kleber Neves is a ...

An international group of researchers examined the two paths that scientists are following to improve science: the movement for reproducibility and the movement for open science. They have very ...